Apple Pie

An amazingly simple to prepare apple pie, delicious served with fresh cream or vanilla ice-cream

Ingredients:

For the pastry:
125 g margarine
125 ml castor sugar
60 ml buttermilk or 1 egg
500 ml cake flour
1 tsp baking powder
2 ml salt

For the filling:
385 g canned pie apples or about 8 peeled, cored and chopped medium apples
125 ml sugar
60 ml raisins
5 ml ground cinnamon
20 ml lemon juice

1. Start  by making the pastry by creaming the sugar and margarine.
2. Add the buttermilk or egg and beat well until light and creamy.
3. Sift in the flour, baking powder and salt.
4. Knead lightly to form a soft dough. Place in the fridge for about 10 minutes.
5. For the filling, combine the apples, sugar, raisins, cinnamon and lemon juice in a pot and simmer on medium heat for 10 minutes.
6. Press half the pastry into a greased ovenproof pie dish and spoon in the filling.
7. Either grate the remaining pastry over the pie or cut the pastry into strips and place decoratively over the apple pie.
8. Bake at 160° C  for about 20 minutes. Cover loosely with foil if you find that the top is browning too quickly before it is baked.

Enjoy ❤